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February 21, request off the Aetna Realty Company for permission to close the west end of Ellz~beth Place be not granted. The properties of the: Eetma Realty Company, known as ~zabeth Place, and Of the Oraford Place Company were laid off and platted as residential Building lots and said plats are on record as such. We bought lots and most of us have erected dwellings upon the representations of the agents of said corporations that the lots were exclusively for residential purposes, otherwise, most if not all of us would have purchased home sites outside of the corporate limits of Ports- meuth. We are advised that streets are public highways amd can only be closed for the public wel- fare, and not for pri~ate interests. We learn that if the west end of Elizabeth Place is closed that the said end of this street and property adjacent thereto will be used for private and c6mmercial purposes which use will seriously depreciate the value of O%LV property and for this and other valid reasons we most strenous!y object to the closing, of. this street end and trust that you will not grant the request of the Aetmm-Realty Coml~ny. Respectfully, J. H. Toomer V.G. Weaver & Mrs. V. G. Weaver E. H. Olaud T.B. Lee, Mrs. T. B. J~lia O. Oollins F. §. Hope II~isy Nash Cia?Ad R. L~wrence Trant S. B. Moore J. D. Ooilins Ann N. Hope Gaston S. Foote Vance Ennes Trant Eathrene Kennedy Toomer S. F. Kirby T. W. M~thews F.. L. Smith ~. V. Gresham Bertha E. Gresham Alice Toomer ~thews Sallie Jessup Kirby R. N.,~Cox Miriam T. Oox jeo~. Nessrs. B. B. Ferguson, J. Davis Reed, F. S. Hope, and Lawrence Trant spoke Then Mr. White moved to concu~ in the recommendation of the Manager. The motion was adopted, and by the following vote: Ayes-- Brooks, Naupin, Ma~o, Oast, stewart, ~htte, 6. The City Manager presented the followir~ ordinance and recommended that An Ordinanc2 Authorizing the Borrowing of Six Hundred Thouss_ud Dollars, of the Collection of the Revenue ~or the Year Therefo=. on the sub- it be adopted: in Anticipation and Providing for the Issuance of a Note On motion of Mr. White, the ordinance was placed on its first reading. UNFINISHED BUSINESS The followimg communication was read from the Oity Attorney: "February 21, Honorable Oity Oouncit, Portsmouth, Va. Gentlemen: In reference to the communication of the Hon. L~uis S. Epes~ State. Corporation Oommissioner, concerning the desire of the-Ohesapea~e and Potomac Telephone Company to lay additional cables in the streets of the City, i can see no objection to the l~ying of these cables so long as they are t~ be treated as the other cables and property of the Chesapeake a~d Potom&c Telephone Company. I would ~g~est that the matter he referred to the Oity~Mauage~ wmth authority to permit the laying of the cables under such restrictions as he may see fit to impose, and with the understanding that the cables so laid will have the same status as other cables of the ~elephone company, which were laid before its franchise expired. Yours very truly, R. C. B~rclay, City Attorney."